A sharp crash that sounds like glass shattering or ice cracking has been documented as likely the world's first audio recording of a meteorite crash. It came by chance from a doorbell camera, recorded ...

Finding a meteorite anywhere in Canada is something of a rarity. Last July, the first one discovered in Prince Edward Island was extra special, as it is likely the first meteorite impact to ever be ...

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way ...

When a gargantuan space rock, estimated to be the size of four Mount Everests, crashed into Earth more than 3 billion years ago, many may assume that it would have wreaked havoc on a young planet.

A home security camera captured a falling meteorite and the sound it made when it hit the walkway leading to a house in Canada, the incident occurring just moments after the homeowner departed for a ...

Maps showing the location of the Hiawatha impact crater in northwest Greenland (left) and the shape of Earth’s surface beneath the ice, with the crater clearly visible (right). Credit: University of ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Katarina Miljkovic, ARC Future Fellow, School of ...

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Approximately 3.26 billion years ago, a meteorite roughly 200 times larger than the one responsible for the extinction of dinosaurs crashed into Earth. This cataclysmic event, known as the S2 impact, ...

On December 24, 2021—the day before the Webb Space Telescope would launch—a rock hurtled through the thin Martian atmosphere and slammed into the ground, leaving a crater nearly 500 feet across. This ...

The crater at the “Domaine du Météore” winery really was caused by a meteorite impact. Countless meteorites have struck Earth in the past and shaped the history of our planet. It is assumed, for ...